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Alexander Sokurov
His Website: Сокуров/Русский- Sokurov/English
Extraits d’une interview sur Hors-Champs:
(English Translation – as I find time)
Il n’y a rien dans un paysage, même pas de beauté. Elle existe dans nous… La nature vit sa vie, un homme vit sa vie. L’homme déifie la nature quand il peut en profiter… L’essentiel, c’est de trouver une position moyenne à l’intérieur de soi-même.
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Il y a très peu de chances que sera un être spécialement éduqué ou honnête. Ce sont les gens qui ont des grands problèmes intérieurs et personnels qui aspirent au pouvoir.
Un homme heureux ne se trouve jamais au pouvoir.
Mais si une personne qui est malheureuse, qui est porteur du malheur se trouve au pouvoir et qui porte en soi des problèmes très profonds émotionels, psycho-physiques, intellectuels, esthétiques – alors c’est le malheur pour tout le monde. Les gens ne comprennent même plus où le malheur s’arrête, où il commence.
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Le mal et l’agression existent dans beaucoup de gens. Il y a des peuples entiers et des groupes de millions de gens qui sont prêts à participer dans des conflits armés. Il faut tout d’abord penser à eux, des gens qui veulent du sang… Va, va faire la guerre contre les hommes d’une autre foi, par exemple. Des millions de gens veulent la guerre malheureusement.
Totally Awesome!
No, nothing of this kind here. Just tired of hearing/seeing that expression used.
So while we are at it, let’s get rid of:
out this world
awesome
whatever
fantastic
amazing
I’m like
groovy
far-out
kind of
totally
really
super
great
truly
deep
dude
yeah
wow
fuck
man
cool
shit
like
hey
…
Let us not hide behind non-speech. Grunting may be more appropriate.
I will add more as similar expressions come back to haunt me.
on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]
[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later), the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]
Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
- Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
- La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
I had thought of stopping this…
I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner - and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.
I had thought of stopping this…
Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.
I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:
Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”
’11 SLIFF BUZZ – Those I found the time to write about…
Eco-Pirate is tonight at the Tivoli at 9:30 p.m. The others, check the schedule: The Welcome, Peace, Restoration, To Be Heard, The Hammer… but MANY others I did not get to write about.
The ’11 St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) website.
’11 SLIFF BUZZ: The Hammer/Hamill – the movie
A short review:
Based on real events (Matt Hamill a.k.a. The Hammer)… An irresistible grandfather guides his grandson – you’ve got to wrestle with life (à la Jacob?):
“If you don’t believe in yourself, I am not going to…
Why do you think you have the right to feel sorry for yourself? The world can be cruel no matter who you are. No one is exempt from that. Roll up your sleeves and get back to work…
Don’t ever give up!”
The fierce advice jolts us forward… yes, our heart will keep pounding! —> A
JEWish IDentity (whispered)
by Roger Cohen in the New York Times
“The lesson is clear: Jews, with their history, cannot become the systematic oppressors of another people. They must be vociferous in their insistence that continued colonization of Palestinians in the West Bank will increase Israel’s isolation and ultimately its vulnerability.”
Reminds me of my video piece “Say I’m a Jew” & its installation “JEW.”
